BW 4/16/2013 1) What kind of art could you make out of trash? 2) Did you remember to bring trash? - If yes, what did you bring? - If no, what are you.

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BW 4/16/2013 1) What kind of art could you make out of trash? 2) Did you remember to bring trash? - If yes, what did you bring? - If no, what are you going to bring next class? 3) How many days of school are left?  Get ready for a presentation, then the library…

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Library  Let’s go to the library first!  Feel free to take a piece of paper and a pencil to sketch with if you would like  Leave bags, water, etc. in the class, the door will be locked.

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Bell Work 4/15/2013  Get ready for a presentation!  What have other people done with trash to make art?  Ready looks like…  Eyes on presenter  Voices off  Sitting attentively ready to watch the presentation

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Vik Muniz  The author arranges all of the pieces carefully, photographs the collages, and then destroys them so that they only exist as photographs. Muniz also mixes junk with luxury goods such as caviar in his collages to make a statement about consumerism.

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Bernard Pras  Pras creates tributes to celebrity portraits and other works of art through a process called anamorphosis, during which he stacks everyday objects on a photograph to form a collage.

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Sarah-Jane van der Westhuizen  The art is created from old car parts, recycled metal pieces, and anything the artist could get her hands on. Van der Westhuizen has installed several of these trash sculptures all over Europe.

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 David Mach  Hundreds of used coathangers go into the sculpture work of David Mach, who uses other recycled materials to do larger- than-life sculptures. This gorilla is one of his most impressive examples.

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Frank Russell  The shark piece below, Captain Crunch, was constructed from hubcaps, food packaging tins, and the leg of a male mannequin. The fins are copper and the teeth are soup cans. It is ten feet long. Russell specializes in these sculptures produced from found objects.

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Tim Gaudreau  Gaudreau’s work combines photography, video, new-media, graphics, and sculpture with humor and irony to create collaborations that advocate for a greater awareness of eco-issues and empowerment. Gaudreau photographed everything he threw out every day for a year. The resulting collage was huge and filled a few rooms at the gallery it was exhibited in.

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Dave Hind  Dave is a Hamilton, Ontario artist who specializes in reclaimed metal and other found objects in his works. He also produces large-scale sculpture and functional artwork. Dave is a Hamilton, Ontario artist

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Tom Deininger  Deininger is widely known as a famous artist who upcycles junk into fine art installations. He is also a highly regarded and collected visual artist.

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Michelle Stitzlein  Stitzlein creates art from found materials such as piano keys, broken china, and other recycled items.

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 Kitty Wales  Wales has been created sculptures, designs, and installations for the last fifteen years that centre on her observations of the animal world. The material that she uses to created her various animal sculptures is salvaged from everyday domestic life.

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 Mark Langan  Langan creates art from reclaimed cardboard and other materials. Scream was created from corrugated cardboard and other recycled materials. Langan works with non-toxic glue, an exacto knife, and a lot of patience.

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 Robert Bradford  Bradford, a former psychotherapist, is best known for creating sculptures from toy parts. He screws the toy parts onto a wooden armature to create his 3D sculptures.

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 Subodh Gupta  Brass pots and eerie skulls from a mashup of metal parts are just part of what this skilled Indian artist has done.

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 Ha Schult  Schult is known for creating massive installations of people constructed from trash in major locations around the world. Here are just a few of them.

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 Tyree Guyton  Guyton created the Heidelburg Project as an urban renewal project, transforming a rundown section of Detroit from a place where people were afraid to walk to an art exhibition that people wanted to visit.Heidelburg Project

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 Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette  ClementineMom on Flickr, Morisette specializes in making art from items she purchases off of eBay or otherwise found objects. ClementineMom on Flickr

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 Chris Jordan  Jordan’s Running the Numbers series aims to display America’s relationship with consumerism. While he doesn’t physically make art from trash, he does showcase the wastefulness of a consumerist society eloquently. The first image, Plastic Bottles, is a shot of 2 million plastic bottles shows how many plastic bottles Americans go through in five minutes. The second, Packing Peanuts is a photograph of 166,000 packing peanuts, or the number of overnight packages shipped by air every hour. The third image, is a recreation of Seurat’s masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte, done with 106,000 aluminum cans. A closeup of the work is immediately beneath it.Running the Numbers

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 Ptolemy Elrington  While he built his reputation creating creatures from hubcaps, Elrington has since branched out into grocery cart parts and old pots and pans.

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 Nek Chand  About 40 years ago, Chand cleared some jungle to build a garden in his native India. He put together a few sculptures using found materials and old trash. Now, his “garden” covers 40 acres and includes numerous mosaics and sculptures made from reclaimed materials.

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 Carolien Adriaansche  A Dutch artist, Adriaansche creates colourful pieces that are put together from every day trash such as bottle caps, wire, sticks, and cleaning bottles.

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 Steven Siegel  Siegel creates large trash forms and places them in the middle of various landscapes. Electronic waste on the Stanford campus and newspapers with headlines about Hurricane Katrina feature prominently in the following installations.

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Safety  Go to the back table  Quick safety chat

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Trash Art Be creative!

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Ideas Think outside the box

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Make 3D or 2D Art It’s up to you! Make it 3D or 2D

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Rubric and Studio Time  3 weeks  Students will vote on which art goes to the art show  Must be made out of garbage  All attached to each other

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EP 4/16/2013 1) Make a list of the trash you want to find at home? 2) What do you want to make for your project? Draw a sketch 3) What will you need to connect your art work or paint your art with? See you all next class!